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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What instrument does the narrator play?
(a) Piano.
(b) The violin.
(c) The guitar.
(d) The trombone.

2. What does the narrator bring the person that lives near her house the morning after his return?
(a) Tea.
(b) Cocoa.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Water.

3. What is the man's reaction to the narrator's comment about giving money for nothing?
(a) He slaps her.
(b) He calls her names.
(c) He nods his head.
(d) He laughs.

4. What does Mr. Vercueil seem to be sleeping off?
(a) The effects of his medication.
(b) The flu.
(c) A bad meal.
(d) The effects of liquor or drugs.

5. Who does the narrator find at the start of Part One?
(a) Her sister.
(b) A homeless woman.
(c) A homeless man.
(d) Her daughter.

6. Why did the housekeeper bring her son to the narrator's house?
(a) It is vacation time.
(b) It is after 5 p.m.
(c) The school is closed.
(d) The bus broke down.

7. How does the housekeeper feel about the beating of Mr. Vercueil?
(a) She is proud of it.
(b) She can understand it.
(c) She condemns it.
(d) She wishes to have done it herself.

8. What does the narrator tell the person that calls her?
(a) That the dog is hers.
(b) That the vagrant is in fact her employee.
(c) That the pool house heats the pool.
(d) That the homeless man owns the dog.

9. Who is the narrator of the book?
(a) A black farmer.
(b) An aged woman.
(c) A police officer.
(d) A young man.

10. What does the narrator tell the person that lives near her house?
(a) Not to light any fires.
(b) Not to urinate in the yard.
(c) To come inside to sleep.
(d) To leave the following morning.

11. What does Florence say the police do to black boys who are not in school?
(a) Fine them.
(b) Attack them.
(c) Arrest them.
(d) Drink with them.

12. How much money does the man take from the narrator?
(a) 50 Rands.
(b) 150 Rands.
(c) Everything she has in her purse.
(d) 20 rands.

13. When does the person the narrator met at the start of Part One return?
(a) In the evening.
(b) In the afternoon.
(c) In the morning.
(d) Around noon.

14. What did the narrator find most troubling after her house was burglarized?
(a) The vandalism.
(b) The graffiti left on her sofa.
(c) The burglars where white.
(d) Stealing her piano.

15. Who follows Mr. Vercueil into the narrator's house?
(a) A friend of his.
(b) Two dogs.
(c) A cat.
(d) A woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator cry when arriving in town?

2. What do the narrator and her housekeeper do after talking with Mr. Vercueil in the kitchen?

3. What does the narrator think of doing with her cats after her death?

4. Where does the housekeeper live?

5. What does Mr. Vercueil do after being beaten?

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